Author: KJ McElrath

ROF Foresees First Pres. Race where an Indep. Candidate Could Win: Bernie v. Trump

ROF Foresees First Pres. Race where an Indep. Candidate Could Win: Bernie v. Trump

Posted by | Aug 16, 2015 | |

The Presidential election of 2016 may wind up being the first one in US history in which an independent candidate wins the White House. At the very least, the campaign will completely transform the two-party system. American voters have been complaining for years that they are tired of “politics as usual,” but for decades, it’s been mostly talk. Every election year, those who actually do cast ballots throw up their hands, hold their noses and vote for whomever they believe to be the “lesser of two evils.”  Independent candidates may receive a few votes, but as a rule, voters...

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Fat Cat CEOs with Poorest Performance Get Highest Pay: Shareholders Screwed

Fat Cat CEOs with Poorest Performance Get Highest Pay: Shareholders Screwed

Posted by | Aug 15, 2015 | |

It’s what former talk show host Randi Rhodes used to describe as “failing upward.” As if the obscene and growing gap between CEO compensation and worker pay weren’t bad enough, it turns out that these CEOs are actually rewarded for failure. Those who benefit from the system would have you believe that top executive talent rightly deserves such lavish rewards, because the companies these executives run have been so profitable over the past several years. They’re basically giving credit for external economic trends to those who sit in their plush, windowed offices on the top floor, spending most of...

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How Evil the Koch Brothers Really Are: Read and Share

How Evil the Koch Brothers Really Are: Read and Share

Posted by | Aug 14, 2015 | |

Earlier this month, at a very ritzy seaside resort in Southern California, Charles and  David Koch had the unmitigated chutzpah to compare their oppressive, right-wing agenda to the Civil Rights movement – virtually spitting in the face of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and others who were injured and even killed fighting for the same basic rights that white Americans had long taken for granted. It’s even more egregious when you consider that the John Birch Society, of which their father Fred Koch was a co-founder, was vehemently against civil rights for anyone. The reality is that the...

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Koch Brothers Have Chosen the Candidate for $900 Million Funding: It’s Scott Walker

Koch Brothers Have Chosen the Candidate for $900 Million Funding: It’s Scott Walker

Posted by | Aug 14, 2015 | , |

Wisconsin dictator “governor” Scott Walker is a man after the Koch Brothers’ own heart. He is dedicated to destroying labor and education, believes that the rich should own and control everything, and that there should be no environmental rules or regulations. To Walker, nothing – even the threat of natural or man-made disaster – should stand in the way of commerce, particularly if that commerce can enrich the 1% at the expense of everyone else. Walker is not above lying and obfuscating – and he can be bought more easily than a Las Vegas prostitute. Small wonder that Their...

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Sam Seder Interviews Author of C8 Toxicity Exposé

Sam Seder Interviews Author of C8 Toxicity Exposé

Posted by | Aug 14, 2015 | |

The founder of DuPont Chemicals, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, left France with his family for the US in 1799, two steps ahead of the guillotine. It might have been far better for the world if that blade had caught up with him. Today, the global corporate behemoth that started out as a gunpowder manufacturer is among the worst corporate polluters on the planet – and we may all wind up suffering the consequences for centuries, if not millennia. DuPont’s most recent alleged crime against humanity and the planet involves a man-made chemical known as “C8,” or perfluorooctanoic...

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